I was wrong, we need crypto

This whole episode is a lesson about the danger of unchecked, centralized power. Any government that has the power to act unilaterally to destroy (financially or otherwise) and imprison anyone they deem "bad" is a government that is a threat to the freedom of everyone. It doesn't matter how benevolent you think they are, or they claim to be. The existence of this power itself is the problem. That's why transparency, checks and balances are so important. Far too many people who claim to believe in freedom and civil rights are actually authoritarians who are merely content that the authoritarians in charge are currently aiming their unlimited power at people they don't like (in many cases, having been conditioned not to like by media arms of the state). It shouldn't matter how much you dislike the truckers or their cause to be aghast at the actions of the Canadian government.

Anti-vaccine pro-crypto CEO who spends his time retweeting bored ape avatars on Twitter telling everybody about how crypto will save us. Please tell me more!

Tyrants understand local police may be hesitant to act against their neighbors under questionable orders. This is why tyrants bring in non-local police who don't have local connections. Outside police will crack skulls and not care because they and their families live elsewhere.

'... Emergency Act allowed other regions to add to the police force without the whole normal process.'

Yes, outside enforcers were needed because local police were not doing it.

Trudeau is one of Schwab's young leaders and has embarrassed Canada. https://www.weforum.org/people/justin-trudeau

> BLM protestors flying "antifa" flags ... are just as bad as Nazis

Let's be clear about what you're saying: people who are vehemently opposed to Nazis are just as bad as Nazis. This is the definition of "fake centrism" or (sarcastically) "enlightened centrism". You're really saying that a new flag created to express opposition to Nazis, fascism, authoritarianism, and genocide is as bad as a flag that has been used for almost a century to represent those exact things? They're just as bad as each other? Are there good and bad people "on both sides", too? You need to seriously take a hard look at yourself in a mirror if you believe this. One group is expressly saying "we should subjugate and genocide non-whites" and the other group is expressly saying "we should not tolerate genocide and subjugation" and they are just as bad in your eyes!?

This is full of factual errors, and garbage on the face of it.

Canada is a rule-of-law, democratic society. The so-called protestors blocked off major ports of entry leading to material harm to businesses. They also violated the rights of individuals living within the downtown core (including my family) for weeks on end. They brought weapons with them, they built shanties and filled them with kerosene and propane.

The plurality of Canadians voted for the government and the imposition of its lawful and constitutional restrictions in re: COVID. Were they unlawful or in violation of Charter rights, they could have used the courts but elected not to. Because they are lawful and in keeping with the Charter.

Two thirds of Canadians support the use of the Emergencies Act in breakup up the unlawful protests.

As the elder Trudeau said in the October Crisis re: the use of the military (which the junior Trudeau is not planning on doing):

  Yeah, well there's a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it's more important to keep law and order in this society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of a soldier's helmet.

If you want to change the Government, vote. Trudeau's Liberals are a minority government meaning they require the support of another major party to continue to be a government. If they fail to pass a confidence bill they will immediately be dissolved and face an election. The average tenure of a minority government in Canada is 1 year, 140 days.

The use of Bitcoin in this manner is anti-Democratic as it seeks to overturn the lawful, constitutional decisions of the plurality - and to overturn the last election.

We have ways of sorting this out in Canada. You vote.

If you see yourself supporting these anti-Democratic viewpoints, ask yourselves: "Are we the baddies?"

[edit] Not only did I not vote for the Liberals in the last election, I'm open to re-evaluating the COVID restrictions too. But not with a boot to the neck. The unlawful protests must end. Then we can talk.